past perfect lesson
Intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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Grammar: Past perfect
Subsidiary Aims
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Listening
Procedure (37-49 minutes)
Procedure: I'm going to ask the Sts 3 questions from the text they had read in the previous lesson. Give 1 min to the students to discuss in pairs. Write down the answer of question number 2. Q. Where had he begun his motor bike journey? He had begun his motorbike journey when he was at Miami. Draw a graph on the board and gıve more examples and explaın the past perfect grammar. Explain the past perfect through the graph by drawing it on the board
I will explain on the board the grammar by drawing a graph of grammar tense past perfect and illustrate the answers of the previous asked questions and explain past perfect. ask them as concept checking question. Have they ever traveled? What happened when they had traveled?
Students have to fill in the city according to the action take place at from the HO. Exercise number 2. Allow students to find out which sentences are in past perfect. Discuss with them and ask concept questions. 1. Was he in Miami when he had bought the car? Yes 2. Did he dream of crossing before going to Miami? Before 2.Was he working before going to Miami? yes
Distribute hand out and they have to complete the sentences with their imaginations using past perfect tense. Pair work They will change their partner and check their answers.
Students A will be given a different fill in the blank but same text then student B . After the task is done Sts. swap partners and check their answers . pairs with student A and students B
Students now tell their partner a journey they have been on when was is and where. using the tense. If I have time Students will write down a puzzle . Asking questions to find out what had happen and complete the puzzle. Students then write sentences uses the same pattern including the agent and age at that time. teacher goes around and monitors.